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  2. Hung jury - Wikipedia

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    A hung jury, also called a deadlocked jury, is a judicial jury that cannot agree upon a verdict after extended deliberation and is unable to reach the required unanimity or supermajority. A hung jury may result in the case being tried again. This situation can occur only in common law legal systems.

  3. Allen v. United States (1896) - Wikipedia

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    Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court case that, among other things, approved the use of a jury instruction intended to prevent a hung jury by encouraging jurors in the minority to reconsider. The Court affirmed Alexander Allen's murder conviction, having vacated his two prior convictions for the same ...

  4. What is the meaning of mistrial? What the hung jury ... - AOL

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    A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of Jason Meade, a former sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the 2020 shooting of a Black man

  5. If Samantha Woll murder trial ends in hung jury, here's what ...

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    If jury deadlocks, defendant in Samantha Woll murder trial could go free - or face another trial.

  6. Petit jury - Wikipedia

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    A jury that is unable to come to a verdict is referred to as a hung jury. The size of the jury varies; in criminal cases involving serious felonies there are usually 12 jurors, although Scotland uses 15. A number of countries that are not in the English common law tradition have quasi-juries on which lay judges or jurors and professional judges ...

  7. What happens if there is a hung jury in the Karen Read trial ...

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    The jurors in the Karen Read case told the judge on Friday that they can't agree. Judge Beverly Cannone told them to keep deliberating.

  8. Karen Read jurors warn they can’t reach a verdict in police ...

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    If the jury remains hung, it would end the case - though the state could decide if it wants to retrial Reed for the alleged murder. She faces a second-degree murder charge that carries a penalty ...

  9. Murder in United States law - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...